Idiom Breakdown

mother lode

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Definition

Any source of valuable or useful material.

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Probably a calque of Spanish veta madre (“mother lode”).

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"It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine."
"Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits [title]"